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"I know, because that's a real thing." He laughed a little to himself, he knew full well that they both knew that but it was still funny to keep up the facade. He clicked his fingers and the pair of hands ran out of nowhere and began picking up the weapons of the dead, they had joined together to make the best of their situation and while one put the guns in a bag the other carried them. "I should upgrade those into a full robot, but they are so useful as just hands." He was speaking to himself but woud have heard her if she wanted to interject. "Well, what happened to the armour I made? I know you joked about sealing it away and hiding clues all around the galaxy to get in to the room but please. Nobody has that much time." He paused and looked at her. "Right?" It was just a normal engineering suit with more than a little metal welded on and enough compartments for ammo that he wouldnt run out in long drawn out gun battles. "Ah, it was a little outdated, maybe I should make something new. Take one of your power armours and make them better." He grinned. "Of course... for about a minute. Its only because I care that I'd even stop." He winked at her and shot through his cover, killing the bright spark who had tried to sneak up on him. "But I could turn him into plasma and then fire him into someone else, two birds and all that." He sighed when she killed off the remainder of the crew, sadly she had just ebbed out his record and killed more than him. It was his own fault for testing out a weapon and not taking the contest seriously. "Alright, Miss Captain, lets go get you your drink. The men can prepare the ship, change its name too. I'm thinking Astral Speck." A simple trace on the name might give away the game before they could take the cruise liner, it was the simple things that were the easiest to fix.

He nodded, he couldn't place it but they reminded him of some old earth film he had once seen. "True enough, I doubt there is anything more scary than two disembodied hands landing on your buddies head and proceeding to crush thier skull." He would need to do some modifications to them, but they both knew that. They both needed stealth attachments and the ability to magnetise themselves to walls. He was going to have to decide if they should act independently but he wasn't great when it came to AI and would probably leave that side of things alone. "Lets see, you went to the Pit and then sacked that mining colony on Hyperion, Let me guess you through all of my stuff in the Pit and then went to celebrate but things go out of hand to the point where you ended up totalling an entire spaceport?" The Pit was an artificial black hole created and monitored by the UNE that was surrounded by a sea of trash. "Its my own fault, I should have taken it with me but I thought it might be a little suspicious getting it through customs. Turns out custom is extremely lax if your a standard citizen." He looked at her when she mentioned her power armour. "That's what she said!" He grinned and hoped it was applicable, lord knows it wasn't usually. "Well, I mean there's no point in returning if the blackmailer is still out there, rookie mistake right there. I'll phone her and let her know I have to extend my visit if push comes to shove." He made his way off the small ship and back into the Afterglow. "You get one and if I see sparklers you can forget about it." He laughed to himself, deadly serious about the sparklers part.

"Well I suppose I could fit a hidden camera in the knuckles." He looked at his own hand and envisioned how he would do it and if he would still have enough room left over for the finger to still work. He would probably need a custom camera and knew he didn't have the optic lenses for that at hand. "I'll have to put that on the back burner." He dropped the issue about the armour, and their escapades as he didn't really want to get into one of their adventures without him without a good reason. She probably wouldn't want a pile of scrap metal in the corner, he had managed to keep his gun because he kept it well out of her way. In a safety deposit box to be precise. Well the gun was worth more than its weight in gold so he hadn't minded the expense. "Are we going to start that?" He asked with a slight grin, ready to take up the challenge if he must but also realising that he had left himself wide open with his response. "Alright." He responded, like a dad that was at his wits end with an annoying child. "One sparkler, but no more than that." They passed through the cargo hold and Dalton stopped briefly to assess the goods they were bringing aboard before rejoining Akira. "So, tell me about this Genesis job, I know it's killing you." He had held off as long as he could but had given in to his curiosity.

"Well I mean if you wanted I suppose we could put this whole hijacking thing on halt until I've made the changes." He paused for a second as the door opened and barely even registered any sort of reaction that this was his suit. He stepped closer into the storage space and began to examine the suit while listening to her story. "Before you start." He flicked on the light and sent his hands off to find his case. "Sorry, go on." He leaned against the door frame as he turned to listen to her. A cargo ship explained how they were able to get away with anything without getting ripped a new one by Genisis. Large warships rarely flew alone and if they did it was because they knew nobody would mess with them, it was one of the reasons why they were after a cruise ship. It was owned by the UNE. He listened to the end and then nodded his head back and forth, there were things he would have done differently sure. But the end result would have probably been about the same if not slightly worse. "Well done." He held up his hands, it was rare for him to genuinely praise someone and in this instance he felt it was required. "I have some questions." He was curious about what happened afterwards. "The crew? Did you kill them? I've been thinking of selling those we don't ransom on this job and wanted to know if it was worth it?" He knew what game she was playing about the haul and wondered if he could get her to crack.

"I'm sure they'll understand, I had to put my life on hold for upgrades." He nodded his head as if it was normal and then moved on with the conversation. "They don't know!?" He did his best surprised face and really put some effort into selling it. "Yeah, hate to burst you bubble on that one but they know." He nooded his head and then slung the suit over is shoulder and staggered out of the closet, it was a lot heavier then he remembered but that was the price he was paying for neither working out or making any changes to the suit since he used it for it's intended purpose. He looked at her and shook his head. "Of course he knows, he's probably just added you to the bounty list and lost interest." He was referring to the CEO of Genesis, the man was the bane of his early years and he had nothing but respect for him. "Nah, if you want to piss him off you need really get in there and take something invaluable. Selling crewmen that he would probably have killed himself isn't really on his radar." He closed his mouth and looked at her. "I thought it was a good heist though. Lets get you that drink." He was worried that his rant might have knocked the wind out of her sails a little.

Dalton shrugged and moved past her agreeing. "Next time we see Mr. Genesis we'll ask him if he knew who busted his cargo ship and how much effort he put into actually stopping those people." He didn't care enough to use the CEO's real name, she knew. "Well either that or plan B, where I call in a favor, get the money wired to me, trace that, then we take all of the evidence to the police and get the guy arrested. I serve a lighter sentence in some minimum security prison on the moon. My wife visits me and is all like, 'Your such a bad a**, I'm so glad you did the right thing in the end.' I think it'd definitely be a movie." He had put some serious though into a plan that he was never going to go ahead with. "Oh and her dad is played by a German shepherd, she loves him but he constantly just growls at my character." He ignored the parts about her being in a black hole in the hopes that it would infuriate her enough to just tell him what she stole. "Yeah, if I hadn't asked you, I'd be staring in a made for TV holo-film. Think about that." He had a pretty good handle on the suit now. "I don't need to go too far, just to the elevator." He said while taking a step forward, and pressing a button on the console that altered the gravity. "Did you think I was going struggle the whole way?" He gave her a grin and made a quick dash to the elevator before the ship corrected itself and normalised gravity in the hallway.

While Akira had been working on the ship, Dalton had taken his time fixing his gear. He knew they would be prepared and honestly didn't want to let the crew down by being shot. He refitted the armour, which took long that he hoped as he had to recast several parts and replace countless others, it wasn't surprising, just tedious. He also re-speced his gun to fire a selection of uncommon rounds as well as small objects. He doubted he was going to run out of ammo but sometimes it was fun to kill a man with his wedding ring or fire off a diamond necklace like an Uzi. Once equipped, suited and packing enough ammo he rejoined Akira on the deck of the destroyed ship, just before it had been set adrift in space. He had not said anything about Akira doing the distress call, he knew better than to try and dissuade her once she had an idea like this in her head. The captain responded immediately with the most flamboyant accent he had ever heard, clearly he had though Akria had been a man. Besides that there was also something truly disturbing about listening to Akira flirt without threatening to rip off their arms but then that probably wouldn't have got them on board. "Are you ready?" The cruise ship had locked on and was bringing them in.